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When you consider the travel insurance, medical insurance, car insurance, and other perks you get with an RBC Avion Platinum card, ... and the flexibility it gives you for booking travel, (flights, hotels, etc), it really is hard to beat.

You only have to travel once, and you have more than paid for any annual fee.

Edit: You can also double dip and earn Aeroplan or other program miles if you book flights with the RBC Avion Platinum card. We recently vacationed in New Zealand and used our Avion points to fly with Air New Zeland. Air NZ is a Star Alliance partner with Air Canada, so we earned Aeroplan points, while flying on Avion points. We each earned enough Aeroplan points to make a short haul trip with Air Canada.

When you fly using Avion points, you can use any airline in the world. Avion is buying you a ticket, not using a seat that was set aside for points travel. If the ticket Avion purchases for you happens to be for an Air Canada flight, or Star Alliance flight, you earn Aeroplan points. You can double dip with other air mile programs as well.